_Capons Fat_ and _Lean_.
There were a Great many _Cramm’d Capons_ together in a Coop; some of ’em
very Fair and _Fat_, and Others again that did not Thrive upon Feeding.
The _Fat_ ones would be ever and anon making Sport with the _Lean_, and
calling them _Starvelings_; till in the End, the Cook was Order’d to
Dress so many _Capons_ for Supper, and to be sure to take the Best in
the Pen: when it came to That once, they that had most Flesh upon their
Backs, wish’d they had had Less, and ’twould have been Better for ’em.
The MORAL.
_Prosperity makes People Proud, Fat, and Wanton; but when a Day of
Reckoning comes, They are the First still that go to Pot._